A joint stock company, to be called the Derwent Steam Navigation Company, was proposed in May 1828, to provide a steam ferry service between Hobart Town and Kangaroo Point (Bellerive), but failed to attract the 5,000 pounds capital it required. John Lord was one of the directors.&#10;

Information Sources:

Hobart Town Courier, 7 June 1828, p.1; Graeme Broxam, Pride of the port: the watermen of Hobart Town (Hobart: Navarine, 2009), p.2